Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Browning's unit plan through the House last week, its supporters had to amend the rules so that instead of a two-thirds majority it needed only a simple majority to pass. When it finally passed, 51 to 44. there still remained a fair chance that the victory would prove a hollow one. Tennessee Courts were promptly asked to rule on a claim that five members of the majority which passed it had no right to their seats because they also held other State offices. Even if the five members are not unseated, thus nullifying the passage...
...Fickert, 64, onetime District Attorney of San Francisco, prosecutor of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known for that infamous...
...been approved by a State textbook committee of educators. Harcourt's price was lower ($1.06 to $1.17 bid by Row, Peterson), but the board has leeway to judge quality. While the seven board members deliberated behind closed doors, it was reported that Board President Ghent Sanderford, former Governor James Ferguson's man, favored the Harcourt book, that another member was equally strong for an agent of Row, Peterson, a former local school superintendent who had helped nurse him through three years of tuberculosis...
...Most sensational probe was that in Texas in 1926, during Governor "Ma'' Ferguson's term, when a school superintendent testified an American Book Co. salesman had asked him how he would like to have his $3,600 salary doubled. During the NRA textbook code hearings, however, a publisher estimated $500,000 was spent by the industry in an unspecified period for dinners for book buyers. Most agents and educators still see nothing wrong in an agent reporting openings for better jobs to teachers and officials to whom he hopes to sell books...
...many a distributor and dealer has ridden his trade to fame & fortune. Distributor Charles S. Howard of San Francisco, having sold Buicks since the company began, now enjoys possession of the race horse Seabiscuit. Ford Dealer Samuel Breadon owns the St. Louis Cardinals. Packard Dealer Alvan Tufts Fuller became Governor of Massachusetts. Newest star to rise from the dealer ranks is Roy Samuel Evans, president of new American Bantam...